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Matthew Kendrick is an Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey. His research focuses on intersections of early modern labor histories and literature, popular culture, and working class studies.

Much attention has been given to the relationship between knowledge and labor in late capitalism. Theorists like Hardt and Negri, building on Marx’s discussion of the “general intellect,” have sought to think through the emancipatory potential of this new knowledge/labor configuration. However, there is a negative flipside to this narrative: as skills and knowledge in […]